Ryan

Ryan anchors the athletic side of prep school life as rowing coach, drawing $400 extra annually for leading the crew team—double Mrs. Mueller's stipend for choir and band direction. His compensation spotlights entrenched gender pay gaps that young Mrs. Landingham weaponizes against young Jed Bartlet, prodding the head master's son to challenge paternal authority and institutional inequities. Ryan stands as silent emblem of male privilege in faculty extras, his role fueling the moral spark that hardens Bartlet's lifelong equity crusade amid personal and national trials.